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Andre Retterath

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🎯Tackling Churn and Driving Retention in AI Products: Metrics, Strategies, Prediction, and Growth

Nov 18, 2025

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16 min read

🎯Tackling Churn and Driving Retention in AI Products: Metrics, Strategies, Prediction, and Growth

How AI Startups Turn Early Drop-Off Into Long-Term Retention

Andre Retterath
Lea Winkler
Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

🔥 How Much Is Your Startup Worth These Days? Here's the State of the Market in November 2025

Nov 16, 2025

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12 min read

🔥 How Much Is Your Startup Worth These Days? Here's the State of the Market in November 2025

Data from Figma, Klarna, Tether, OpenAI & More

Andre Retterath
Andre Retterath

Essays

🚀This Factor Predicts Startup Success

Nov 13, 2025

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13 min read

🚀This Factor Predicts Startup Success

New Study by MIT Sloan Reveals Simple But Powerful Predictor

Andre Retterath
Andre Retterath

Insights

🚀 How to Scale from $1M to $20M ARR, 2025 GTM Playbooks, Rise of Forward Deployed Engineers & More

Nov 11, 2025

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12 min read

🚀 How to Scale from $1M to $20M ARR, 2025 GTM Playbooks, Rise of Forward Deployed Engineers & More

New Research from ChartMogul, Growth Unhinged, Dealroom, Pave

Andre Retterath
Lea Winkler
Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

🚀How to Start a New Fund?

Nov 9, 2025

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6 min read

🚀How to Start a New Fund?

Behind-the-Scenes of Visionaries Club and 10x Founders

Andre Retterath
Andre Retterath

Essays

🎙️Is It OK If I Record This Meeting?

Nov 6, 2025

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8 min read

🎙️Is It OK If I Record This Meeting?

The Future of Meeting Memory: Tools, Do's and Don'ts

Andre Retterath
Andre Retterath

Insights

🌎 Hiring Local vs. Remote: The Playbook for Startups in 2025

Nov 4, 2025

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19 min read

🌎 Hiring Local vs. Remote: The Playbook for Startups in 2025

Best Practices, Do's and Don't for Finding the Best Talent

Andre Retterath
Lea Winkler
Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

🔥30 Hottest Startups in November 2025

Nov 2, 2025

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20 min read

🔥30 Hottest Startups in November 2025

Measured by Investor Interest, Headcount, Website Traffic & More

Andre Retterath
Andre Retterath
⏮️ Content You Don't Want To Miss ;)

Oct 31, 2025

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13 min read

⏮️ Content You Don't Want To Miss ;)

October's Highlights Across Startups, VC, Data & AI

Andre Retterath
Andre Retterath

Essays

☠️AI Is Killing Consulting - Slowly, Then Suddenly

Oct 30, 2025

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14 min read

☠️AI Is Killing Consulting - Slowly, Then Suddenly

+ Why It Creates a Massive New Business Opportunity

Andre Retterath
Andre Retterath

Insights

🦄Unicorn Founder Traits, Funding Amount vs. Success, Founder Liquidity, Exec Turnover & More

Oct 28, 2025

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11 min read

🦄Unicorn Founder Traits, Funding Amount vs. Success, Founder Liquidity, Exec Turnover & More

New Research from Stanford, RAMP, Pave

Andre Retterath
Lea Winkler
Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

💰Secondaries in Venture: An Essential Liquidity Solution for Founders, Angels & Funds

Oct 26, 2025

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4 min read

💰Secondaries in Venture: An Essential Liquidity Solution for Founders, Angels & Funds

Buying & Selling GP Commit / Carry Vehicles, LP Fund Investments, Strip Sales, Continuation Funds, and Company Stakes

Andre Retterath
Andre Retterath

Essays

💥The New AI-Browser Is Here: ChatGPT Atlas

Oct 23, 2025

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14 min read

💥The New AI-Browser Is Here: ChatGPT Atlas

Takeaways After 24 Hours of Letting Atlas Browse the Web For Me

Andre Retterath
Andre Retterath

Insights

💥Two Metrics That Really Matter: Burn Multiple and Revenue per Dollar

Oct 22, 2025

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26 min read

💥Two Metrics That Really Matter: Burn Multiple and Revenue per Dollar

What Investors Actually Cary About These Days

Andre Retterath
Jerome Jaggi
Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

🔥 How Much Is Your Startup Worth These Days? Here's the State of the Market in October 2025

Oct 19, 2025

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13 min read

🔥 How Much Is Your Startup Worth These Days? Here's the State of the Market in October 2025

Data from Electronic Arts, Tether, With Intelligence & More

Andre Retterath
Andre Retterath

Essays

🧠 When the Founder Is the Moat

Oct 16, 2025

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7 min read

🧠 When the Founder Is the Moat

Lessons from Scale AI, Windsurf, Thinking Machines Lab & More

Andre Retterath
Andre Retterath

Insights

💥 How to Predict Unicorns, Founder Vesting Data, Success and Exit Velocity, Dealing With Low Performers & More

Oct 14, 2025

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11 min read

💥 How to Predict Unicorns, Founder Vesting Data, Success and Exit Velocity, Dealing With Low Performers & More

New Research from Stanford, Carta, Pave & More

Andre Retterath
Jérôme Jaggi
Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

🔥Investing in AI: VC Subsidized Growth?

Oct 12, 2025

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4 min read

🔥Investing in AI: VC Subsidized Growth?

Perspectives from Accel, Creandum, Gradient & Lightspeed

Andre Retterath
Andre Retterath

Essays

🎈Are we in an AI bubble?

Oct 9, 2025

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11 min read

🎈Are we in an AI bubble?

What's really happening with OpenAI, Nvidia, AMD, Oracle & more

Andre Retterath
Andre Retterath

Insights

💥The Impact of Board Composition on Startup Success

Oct 7, 2025

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18 min read

💥The Impact of Board Composition on Startup Success

Learnings from OpenAI, FTX, Theranos & more

Andre Retterath
Jerome Jaggi
Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

🔥30 Hottest Startups in October 2025

Oct 5, 2025

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5 min read

🔥30 Hottest Startups in October 2025

Measured by Investor Interest, Headcount, Website Traffic & More

Andre Retterath
Andre Retterath

Essays

✍️10 Takeaways from the Investor Summit at Bits & Pretzels 2025

Oct 2, 2025

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9 min read

✍️10 Takeaways from the Investor Summit at Bits & Pretzels 2025

From Partners at Accel, Khosla, KKR, Lightspeed & More

Andre Retterath
Andre Retterath

Resources

🔥VC Co-Pilot for Deal Sourcing

Sep 28, 2025

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4 min read

🔥VC Co-Pilot for Deal Sourcing

Access our most valuable resources👇

Andre Retterath
Andre Retterath

Essays

🥳 Celebrating 3 Years Data Driven VC

Sep 25, 2025

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13 min read

🥳 Celebrating 3 Years Data Driven VC

Top 25 DDVC Tools, Discounts, Events & More

Andre Retterath
Andre Retterath

Insights

💥Startup Salaries, Equity, and Their Impact on Employee Retention

Sep 23, 2025

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24 min read

💥Startup Salaries, Equity, and Their Impact on Employee Retention

Synthesizing Insights From the Data

Andre Retterath
Jerome Jaggi
Andre Retterath, +1
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